Terry Hyde is a Blackcountryman and during his early years, he and his best friend David Wilson became train spotters and managed to travel around the area and photograph some of the most unique images of engines and trains that were busy in the Black Country.

Terry has donated his archive of railway photographs to the  Black Country Society.  The photographs were taken between 1959 - 1963, just before the railways were hit by the Beeching cuts.

Terry grew up in Ball Fields, Horseley Heath and his first railway memories were seeing trains pass under and over the bridges in New Road, Great Bridge; and watching the shunting engine in the works of Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott from the end of his playground at Great Bridge Infants School. By the mid-1950s, when old enough to embark on outings with fellow enthusiast David Wilson. Their bicycles would take them to desirable railway locations such as Stafford, Lichfield, Rugeley, Rugby, and the Lickey Incline. 

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